Yeeli: The Youth-Led Platform Seeking to Transform Burkina Faso’s Public Services
In Burkina Faso, corruption and racketeering practices in public health services hinder care and harm citizen trust. Learn how a local youth organization is expanding access to information and creating an easier path for reporting corruption.
Open County Kilifi: Making Citizen Voices Count Through Data
Open County Kilifi monitors and evaluates the performance of county projects. Learn how Open Institute worked with the county government and young citizens to collect data on the status of these projects, serving to enhance citizen engagement and ownership by its own citizens.
A Quest to Open Up Budget Data
Government budgets are often complicated and technical, so simply publishing them does not necessarily make them accessible to most citizens. In South Africa, the data the government made public was static and unintegrated, and civil society actors observed that citizens were not using the data as extensively as they could. To address this, the National … Continued
Empowering Citizens To Keep Up With Urban Development
With the help of an online platform, residents of the rapidly-growing twin cities of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana will be able to monitor all aspects of building contracts and permits. This represents a major turning point in an industry rife with corruption and secrecy.
Indoor Plumbing: Safer City
Tackling the problem of sanitation in partnership with citizens, landlords, and different associations, Sekondi-Takoradi was able to move forward to a safer, cleaner metropolitan area.
Eyes and Ears to Improve Public Services
Increasing Transparency and Accountability in Extractives in Plateau, Nigeria
From Commitment to Law of the Land: Beneficial Ownership Transparency in Nigeria
Shell companies are often a major enabler of corruption and financial crime. To tackle this, Nigerian reformers in government and civil society came together to establish a registry to disclose the real owners of this companies through OGP.